In co-operation with M. Strauss (Princeton) and A. Yahil (State University of New York at Stony Brook) IPAC has completed reprocessing of the intermediate- and high-galactic-latitude 60 um IRAS data for 24,531 Faint Source Survey objects explicitly allowing for the possibility that the sources are resolved by the IRAS detectors. The purpose was to improve the total flux estimators for galaxies resolved by the IRAS detectors. To accomplish this we developed, tested and applied an algorithm for broadening, fitting and integrating a scaled template, thereby deriving fluxes for sources that would otherwise be underestimated by standard point-source fitting techniques. Simulations have been run and analyzed, providing comparisons with previously published studies for many of these sources.
A paper describing the processor and the revised 60 um fluxes is being prepared now for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Copies of the newly processed data tables for the complete data set will be deposited with the NSSDC for community access. The released product is a plain ASCII file containing in addition to the Faint Source name and position, the flux density for the widened model fit, the rederived SCANPI flux density estimates (PEAK and FNUZ), several widening parameters (including the SCANPI output of W25 and W50), as well as chi-squared measures of the goodness of fit and errors on the fluxes (SCANPI is IPAC's standard 1-D coaddition processor, described fully in the IPAC User's Guide). Cirrus 3 Flags and pointers to the IRAS Large Galaxy Catalog entries are also provided. Only selected entries for the most widened sources will be published in the aforementioned paper.